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2021 Plumas County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Plumas County, CA went without power for an average of 393.4 hours, a total of 3.6M customer-hours (California average 6.6 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 57 California counties and 10th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Plumas County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 24, 2021 12:30 | June 24, 2021 17:45 | 5h 15m | 11,479 | 49K |
| 2 | July 14, 2021 04:15 | August 14, 2021 01:00 | 30d 20h | 11,009 | 1.3M |
| 3 | December 13, 2021 18:30 | December 21, 2021 22:15 | 8d 3h | 6,218 | 361K |
| 4 | August 14, 2021 01:45 | August 22, 2021 04:30 | 8d 2h | 5,679 | 522K |
| 5 | August 22, 2021 06:15 | October 18, 2021 17:30 | 57d 11h | 4,742 | 1.1M |
| 6 | January 19, 2021 07:00 | January 21, 2021 08:45 | 2d 1h | 3,470 | 30K |
| 7 | December 25, 2021 19:45 | December 31, 2021 00:15 | 5d 4h | 3,342 | 95K |
| 8 | October 21, 2021 05:00 | November 10, 2021 03:45 | 19d 22h | 2,062 | 89K |
| 9 | June 25, 2021 01:15 | June 25, 2021 04:45 | 3h 30m | 1,943 | 5,835 |
| 10 | February 25, 2021 17:15 | February 25, 2021 22:45 | 5h 30m | 1,815 | 1,847 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 34 reached 100+ customers, 11 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Plumas County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Gas & Electric Co. | 2021 | 10.4 hrs | 1.84 | 3.6 hrs | 1.32 |
| Liberty Utilities | 2021 | 16.8 hrs | 4.60 | 11.7 hrs | 3.86 |
| Plumas-Sierra Rural Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 95% of California's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 9,230 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Plumas County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Plumas County, CA annual power outage report, 2021, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2021/california/plumas-county